Senior Social Worker - Adult Social Care

Looking for a new and rewarding Social Work opportunity?

We want to invest in you and our community. We want to hear from you if you want to make a difference, feel valued and well supported, enjoy innovating and championing new ideas and working closely with the community and our local hospitals and all our partners in Bexley.

We have opportunities for a professionally registered Social Workers to take on a Senior Social Work roles within very well supported Adult Social Work Teams using your skills and knowledge to work with a range of people with different vulnerabilities and provide Care Act support to adults or young people moving into adulthood, both in community and hospital settings, to enable the life and choices they want.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to represent the amazing community we serve. You will advocate for and support managing assessments, support planning and reviews of persons with Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Physical Health or Older Person needs. You will have experience of managing complex safeguarding cases. You will be providing supervision and practice support ensuring Social Workers in the team are well supported with manageable caseloads, deputising for the manager as required.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers.

The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages., Disability Confident
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Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme, hybrid and flexible family friendly working, generous paid annual leave plus bank holidays along with excellent training and career development opportunities. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document.